Reading Support Engineer Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for the Support Engineer role in IT jobs within the Reading region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 7 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Support Engineer
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Aldershot Amersham Aylesbury Banbury Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexley Billericay Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Carmarthenshire Caterham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Corsham County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Cranleigh Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Dartmouth Derby Derbyshire Devizes Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Dunfermline Dunstable Durham East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edenbridge Edinburgh Egham Elland Ely Enfield England Essex Fareham Farnborough Felixstowe Feltham Fife Flintshire Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hayes Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Hitchin Horsham Hounslow Hove Hull Huntingdon Ilford Inverurie Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liphook Liverpool Livingston Llanelli London Loughborough Luton Lutterworth Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Market Harborough Matlock Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Mitcham Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Abbot Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwood Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Ongar Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Ringwood Rochdale Rochester Rotherham Royston Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans St Neots Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke Mandeville Stoke-on-Trent Stroud Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Tewkesbury Thames Valley Thurrock Tonbridge Towcester Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wetherby Weybridge Whitstable Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wrexham Wycombe Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	45	40
Rank change on same period last year	-5
Matching permanent IT job ads	70	119
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.060 %	0.061 %
As % of the category below	3.998 %	4.859 %
Salaries quoted	60	97
Average minimum salary	£29,967	£31,144
Average salary	£32,292	£33,237
% change on same period last year	-2.84 %
Average maximum salary	£34,617	£35,330
UK excluding London average salary	£29,209	£29,144
% change on same period last year	+0.22 %
Job Titles Reading
Matching permanent IT job ads	1751	2449
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.508 %	1.251 %
Salaries quoted	1409	1955
Average minimum salary	£36,773	£37,912
Average salary	£40,260	£41,255
% change on same period last year	-2.41 %
Average maximum salary	£43,746	£44,599
UK excluding London average salary	£38,504	£39,019
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
Support Engineer Berkshire

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Support Engineer across the Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Support Engineer across the Reading region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Support Engineer across the Reading region over the 3 months to 7 January 2009.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT jobs across the Reading region that cited Support Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Support Engineer in their job title.

1 135 (57.20 %) Windows 2 87 (36.86 %) TCP/IP 3 86 (36.44 %) UNIX 4 61 (25.85 %) Microsoft 5 59 (25.00 %) Firewall 6 54 (22.88 %) German Language 7 53 (22.46 %) Windows Server 2003 8 48 (20.34 %) Cisco 8 48 (20.34 %) Cisco Certification 9 44 (18.64 %) Linux 10 41 (17.37 %) Active Directory 11 40 (16.95 %) Microsoft Certification 12 39 (16.53 %) CCNA 13 33 (13.98 %) MS Excel 14 31 (13.14 %) SQL Server

15 30 (12.71 %) Windows 2000 15 30 (12.71 %) SQL 15 30 (12.71 %) MCSE 15 30 (12.71 %) Solaris 15 30 (12.71 %) CCNP 16 27 (11.44 %) MCP 17 26 (11.02 %) MS Exchange 17 26 (11.02 %) CheckPoint 17 26 (11.02 %) French Language 18 24 (10.17 %) Oracle 19 22 (9.322 %) Internet 20 21 (8.898 %) Exchange Server 2003 21 20 (8.475 %) MS Office 22 19 (8.051 %) Windows XP 22 19 (8.051 %) Juniper

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT jobs across the Reading region that cited Support Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Support Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 11 (4.661 %) HTML 2 8 (3.390 %) XML 3 5 (2.119 %) .NET 4 4 (1.695 %) J2EE 4 4 (1.695 %) CGI 4 4 (1.695 %) SOAP 5 3 (1.271 %) XSLT 5 3 (1.271 %) ASP 5 3 (1.271 %) CSS 6 2 (0.847 %) ODBC 6 2 (0.847 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 26 (11.02 %) MS Exchange 2 21 (8.898 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 9 (3.814 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 9 (3.814 %) Lotus Notes 4 6 (2.542 %) IIS 5 5 (2.119 %) Exchange Server 5.5 5 5 (2.119 %) Exchange Server 2000 6 2 (0.847 %) Resin 6 2 (0.847 %) Apache 6 2 (0.847 %) Tomcat 6 2 (0.847 %) Oracle HTTP Server 6 2 (0.847 %) WebSphere MQ 6 2 (0.847 %) IBM HTTP Server 7 1 (0.424 %) SharePoint 7 1 (0.424 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 33 (13.98 %) MS Excel 2 20 (8.475 %) MS Office 3 1 (0.424 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 3 (1.271 %) SoftGrid 2 1 (0.424 %) Teamcenter 2 1 (0.424 %) Applix TM1 2 1 (0.424 %) GoldMine
Communications & Networking 1 87 (36.86 %) TCP/IP 2 59 (25.00 %) Firewall 3 22 (9.322 %) Internet 4 18 (7.627 %) SAN 4 18 (7.627 %) VPN 5 17 (7.203 %) DNS 6 15 (6.356 %) LAN 7 14 (5.932 %) WAN 7 14 (5.932 %) Network Security 8 12 (5.085 %) Ethernet 9 11 (4.661 %) MPLS 10 10 (4.237 %) OSPF 10 10 (4.237 %) BGP 10 10 (4.237 %) DHCP 11 9 (3.814 %) VLAN 12 8 (3.390 %) Wireless 12 8 (3.390 %) IP Telephony 13 7 (2.966 %) Cisco IPT 13 7 (2.966 %) Cisco PIX 13 7 (2.966 %) ATM	Database & Business Intelligence 1 31 (13.14 %) SQL Server 2 6 (2.542 %) DB2 2 6 (2.542 %) RDBMS 3 5 (2.119 %) MySQL 4 4 (1.695 %) SQL Server 2005 4 4 (1.695 %) Informix 5 3 (1.271 %) Oracle 9i 5 3 (1.271 %) SQL Server 2008 6 2 (0.847 %) Oracle 11g 6 2 (0.847 %) SQL Server 2000 6 2 (0.847 %) Oracle 10g 7 1 (0.424 %) BusinessObjects 7 1 (0.424 %) MS Access 7 1 (0.424 %) Datawarehouse 7 1 (0.424 %) Oracle Reports 7 1 (0.424 %) Oracle 8/8i 7 1 (0.424 %) MSDE 7 1 (0.424 %) GIS
General 1 18 (7.627 %) Pensions 2 10 (4.237 %) Health 3 7 (2.966 %) Telecoms 4 6 (2.542 %) Finance 5 3 (1.271 %) Electric 5 3 (1.271 %) Electronics 5 3 (1.271 %) Auditing 6 2 (0.847 %) Military 6 2 (0.847 %) Retail 7 1 (0.424 %) Insurance 7 1 (0.424 %) Legal 7 1 (0.424 %) Government 7 1 (0.424 %) Marketing	Miscellaneous 1 54 (22.88 %) German Language 2 26 (11.02 %) French Language 3 19 (8.051 %) Clustering 4 6 (2.542 %) Blackberry 5 5 (2.119 %) Replication 6 4 (1.695 %) Spanish Language 7 3 (1.271 %) Italian Language 8 2 (0.847 %) Portuguese Language 8 2 (0.847 %) Client/Server 9 1 (0.424 %) Computer Science
Operating Systems 1 135 (57.20 %) Windows 2 86 (36.44 %) UNIX 3 53 (22.46 %) Windows Server 2003 4 44 (18.64 %) Linux 5 30 (12.71 %) Windows 2000 5 30 (12.71 %) Solaris 6 19 (8.051 %) Windows XP 7 18 (7.627 %) Windows Vista 8 12 (5.085 %) Windows 2000 Server 9 11 (4.661 %) Windows NT 10 10 (4.237 %) Red Hat Linux 11 9 (3.814 %) AIX 11 9 (3.814 %) HPUX 12 8 (3.390 %) SUSE 13 7 (2.966 %) Windows Server 2008 14 3 (1.271 %) NetWare 15 1 (0.424 %) Fedora 15 1 (0.424 %) OpenVMS	Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (5.085 %) ITIL 2 5 (2.119 %) Validation 3 4 (1.695 %) Data Management 3 4 (1.695 %) Web Development 4 3 (1.271 %) Incident Management 4 3 (1.271 %) Process Management 4 3 (1.271 %) Disaster Recovery 5 2 (0.847 %) Release Management 5 2 (0.847 %) Service Management 6 1 (0.424 %) Performance Testing 6 1 (0.424 %) Computer Security 6 1 (0.424 %) Problem Management 6 1 (0.424 %) ITSM 6 1 (0.424 %) Data Security 6 1 (0.424 %) Service Delivery 6 1 (0.424 %) Change Management 6 1 (0.424 %) Requirements Analysis 6 1 (0.424 %) Migration 6 1 (0.424 %) OO 6 1 (0.424 %) RAD
Programming Languages 1 30 (12.71 %) SQL 2 16 (6.780 %) C 3 13 (5.508 %) Java 4 10 (4.237 %) Perl 5 7 (2.966 %) Shell Script 6 6 (2.542 %) JavaScript 7 5 (2.119 %) VB.NET 8 4 (1.695 %) VBScript 8 4 (1.695 %) PL/SQL 9 3 (1.271 %) VB 9 3 (1.271 %) Transact-SQL 9 3 (1.271 %) Python 9 3 (1.271 %) VB6 9 3 (1.271 %) Korn 10 2 (0.847 %) Jython 10 2 (0.847 %) C# 10 2 (0.847 %) C++ 11 1 (0.424 %) Delphi	Qualifications 1 48 (20.34 %) Cisco Certification 2 40 (16.95 %) Microsoft Certification 3 39 (16.53 %) CCNA 4 30 (12.71 %) CCNP 4 30 (12.71 %) MCSE 5 27 (11.44 %) MCP 6 12 (5.085 %) MCSA 7 9 (3.814 %) Security Cleared 8 8 (3.390 %) Degree 9 7 (2.966 %) CCSA 10 4 (1.695 %) CCSE 10 4 (1.695 %) MCDBA 11 3 (1.271 %) CCA 11 3 (1.271 %) Citrix Certification 11 3 (1.271 %) CNA 11 3 (1.271 %) Novell Certification 11 3 (1.271 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 11 3 (1.271 %) JNCIS 12 2 (0.847 %) MCDST 12 2 (0.847 %) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (0.847 %) SLA	System Software 1 41 (17.37 %) Active Directory 2 8 (3.390 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 4 (1.695 %) NetBackup 4 3 (1.271 %) VMware ESX 4 3 (1.271 %) MetaFrame 4 3 (1.271 %) Terminal Services 4 3 (1.271 %) Squid 4 3 (1.271 %) Xen 4 3 (1.271 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 4 3 (1.271 %) Citrix Presentation Server 5 1 (0.424 %) ISA Server 5 1 (0.424 %) Backup Exec
Systems Management 1 5 (2.119 %) MOM 1 5 (2.119 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 4 (1.695 %) Netcool 2 4 (1.695 %) SCCM 3 2 (0.847 %) OpenView 3 2 (0.847 %) CiscoWorks 4 1 (0.424 %) HP Data Protector 4 1 (0.424 %) OpenView Configuration Management	Vendors 1 61 (25.85 %) Microsoft 2 48 (20.34 %) Cisco 3 26 (11.02 %) CheckPoint 4 24 (10.17 %) Oracle 5 19 (8.051 %) Juniper 6 17 (7.203 %) Blue Coat 7 15 (6.356 %) Citrix 8 14 (5.932 %) Sun 9 12 (5.085 %) HP 9 12 (5.085 %) VMware 9 12 (5.085 %) Red Hat 10 9 (3.814 %) Lotus 11 7 (2.966 %) Remedy 12 6 (2.542 %) VERITAS 13 5 (2.119 %) EMC 13 5 (2.119 %) Nokia 14 4 (1.695 %) Websense 15 3 (1.271 %) NetApp 15 3 (1.271 %) Avaya 15 3 (1.271 %) IBM